You’re a Teacher of Israel and Do Not Know These Things?

Joseph F. Dumond

Isa 6:9-12 And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed. Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation, and until Jehovah has moved men far away, and the desolation in the midst of the land is great.
Published: Dec 20, 2024

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December 21, 2024

Shabbat Shalom to the Royal Family of Yehovah, 

Last Sabbath we had a great and ruckus discussion about being born again. Are you born again? Some said they were and gave the date they were reborn.

I have said it many times, and it is time to say it once again. When we begin this walk in Torah, how much baggage do we bring with us from our former religious institution? How many of us are taking the new revelations we learn in the Torah and just adding them to what we had learned at the Lutheran, Catholic or whatever other place of worship we used to attend?

How many of us are removing the erroneous teachings from our theology, or are we just masking them over with Hebraic verbiage so they now sound kosher, much like new people taking on a Hebrew-sounding name to signify their new walk?

Chiseling away those things that we were once indoctrinated in and wholeheartedly believed in is often a painful experience. We are more apt to resist it rather than embrace the new understanding.

Do you remember when you first learned that Santa was fake? I think I was about 12, and I was very upset and angry at my older cousin, who delighted in destroying my fantasy world. I apologize to those who just now learned Santa was fake.

Like Santa, false doctrines do not draw you closer to Yehovah and His Torah. After all, His Torah is Yehovah, and that Torah, Yehovah, dwelt amongst us as His Living Word.

Jhn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jhn 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth.

We have learned that we are not going to heaven when we die. We have also learned that we are not going to hell to burn for ever either when we die.

We have learned a great deal about each of the Holy Days in this walk and how they reveal the plan of salvation. Just understanding these things shows us so much about being born again. And yet many still do not understand.

Jhn 3:10 Jesus answered and said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel and do not know these things?

How can you be a teacher of the brethren and not understand this? It is obvious when you know the Moedim.

This week, I will share the teaching from the United Church of God. Then, I will share the three videos Michael Rood has made on Baptism. Finally, I will share what I see about baptism in light of the Holy Days and Jubilee years.

There is a lot to unpack this week. I hope it all a blessing to you. Just click on each tab below to open up those subjects.

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There are many people in need of fellowship and who are sitting at home on the Sabbath with no one to talk to or debate with. I want to encourage all of you to join us on Shabbat, and to invite others to come and join us as well. If the time is not convenient then you can listen to the teaching and the midrash after on our YouTube channel.

What are we doing and why do we teach this way?

We are going to discuss both sides of an issue and then let you choose. It is the work of the Ruach (Spirit) to direct and to teach you.

The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.

Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are Wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and I and you are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.

Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.

Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teaches you and encourages you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.

We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable of explaining why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.

We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as Fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.

Jas 1:5  But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.

We hope you can invite those who want to keep Torah to come and join us by hitting the link below. It is almost like a Torah teaching fellowship talk show with people from around the world taking part and sharing their insights and understandings.

We start off with some music and then some prayers and it’s as though you were sitting around the kitchen back in Newfoundland having a cup of coffee and all of us enjoying each other’s company. I hope you will grace us with your company someday.

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The Perpetual Calendar

The Perpetual Calendar

We have available from our website a calendar you can use to keep track of the days of the month based on when the Barley is ripe and when the moon is sighted. ALl you have to do is download it. https://sightedmoon.com/perpetual-calendar/

With the new year about to begin, you can learn about the calendar as you record it. This is a great tool to have and it is free to anyone who wants it.

11 Comments

  1. Good, and much needed, newsletter this week!

    I’ve given a lot of thought to the midrash (bible studies)… As I’ve matured a bit with such discussions, I have wanted to share two points of personal discipline that I’ve worked on. Since this last week’s discussion and newsletter are more memorable, this seems like a good time to share them below:

    Learning when “not” to speak… I’ve disciplined myself to not speak up when an idea or scripture pops into my head… my thoughts are that someone else in the group has the same idea and is also itching to say it. So, I wait and let them speak so they can feel the positive feedback and grow and such with the group. Nearly always, somebody else jumps in and says what I was thinking… often in a better way than I would have put the idea forth.

    Assuring that what I am about to say comes from scripture… Another discipline that I’ve worked on is to make sure that when I speak up in a discussion of the scriptures is that I site scripture as my source and not talk emotionally based other outside gathered knowledge. During last Sabbath’s discussion, after the topic of “born again” came up, I did speak up (at the 3 hour and 46 minute mark: https://youtu.be/W9I_JfRUbWA?t=13560) because I felt that people were speaking from “church knowledge” instead of what the scriptures themselves say. My answer may or may not be the best explanation of the scriptures, but it did come from scripture, rather than church knowledge and tradition. Maybe this is a little easier for me because from an early age I was never accepted into the church (causing my beliefs to be developed from personal study), but it still takes disciple, as the culture around me does influence beliefs.

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    • Mike, my thoughts are IF a certain scripture comes to mind, you should share it IMMEDIATELY in the chat. Don’t. Need to put up hand and comment, just type in for example Jn 3:16. The REASON I SAY THIS IS, YESHUA says the Holy Spirit will bring all things to your REMEMBRANCE. So IF. the Spirit brings a verse to mind, share it to the entire group through chat IMMEDIATELY. If one waits to be called upon, the midrash discussion may have moved on, and the scripture called to memory MAY LOSE its value to teach someone specific in the moment. Thus, you lose the advantage to teach the group, or someone specific that you do not know, in that moment. Sadly, I sometimes feel very IMPORTANT things are said in the chat, even scriptures referenced, that NEVER make their way into the verbal conversation.

      J.w.

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      • Yeah. The chat is great for that.

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    • You must be born of water and the spirit… I see as born of water referencing John words, “I baptize you unto REPENTANCE …” Water baptism not only does the things spoken of in the newsletter, but is the symbolic sign between a person and God that one is repenting, going the other direction they were going, and are now dedicating their future to obedience to Yehovah’s Torah. Thus the water baptism, or being born of water as Yeshua said.

      Being born of the Spirit is just that, being born spiritually into the Kingdom, the government of Yeshua, to hold a position as assigned in His government, Isa 9:6, for the 1,000 year millennial reign. Flesh and blood CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM, so we MUST BE transformed from flesh to Spirit to reign with, hold positions in Messiah’s Kingdom. Thus born of the Spirit.

      One MUST BE born of water (unto REPENTANCE of breaking God’s laws) AND THEN, either through resurrection or being caught up into the clouds, changed in the twinkling of an eye, one is born of the Spirit.

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      • This Shabbat morning I was inspired to do a KJ search on e-Sword for the term “born again.” The term only appears THREE times in the NT search – Jn 3:3, 3:7, and 1 Peter 1:23, but actually a fourth time in 1 Peter 1;3. So I switched to KJ+ and Peter used DIFFERENT WORDS THAN YESHUA, but both were translated by scholars as “born again.” Peter used G313, anagennao . Yeshua used 2 different words G1080 born, gennao, and G509 again, anothen, from G507; from above, by analogy from the first; by implication:- a new:-from above, again, from the beginning (very first,) the top.

        Peter DID NOT USE THE SAME GREEK WORDS AS YESHUA DID, FOR THE ENGLISH SCHOLARLY TERM BORN AGAIN!

        J.W.

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  2. DECEMEMBER 25TH
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    Usually this time of year, sightedmoon has an article such as the following classic newsletter that talks about beliefs associated with DECEMBER 25TH:

    https://sightedmoon.com/are-you-worshipping-molech/

    It’s only about a fourth the size of today’s newsletter (today’s newsletter is over 100 printed pages, by the way — you get a lot for free at sightedmoon.com), but it is worth reading if you have questions related to Christmas. The one Chanukah is just as good a read, too:

    https://sightedmoon.com/yeah-but-jesus-kept-chanukah-see-john-1022-2/

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    DECEMBER 25TH 1776
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    But what I’m celebrating on DECEMBER 25th this year is George Washington crossing the Delaware in the pursuit of freedom and liberty from our oppressors! Just a few short months after the Declaration of Independence was signed, General Washington led his troops in the chill of winter across the Delaware river and fought victoriously on December 25 and 26, 1776. At a time when the celebration of Christmas was still illegal in many places in New England, the Americans knew that the enemy’s army which contained prisoners, Irish, and many English that were debased with the horrendous tradition of keeping the pagan practice of Christmas. Washington was counting on the opposing army to be drunk, disorganized, and entirely off-guard.

    As history shows, Washington was correct. The battle was easily won by the Colonial Army. The unsuspecting Colonel Rall, whose army was defeated at the Battle of Trenton, had drank all night throughout the eve of the pagan festival. His troops had followed his example. During the battle, Colonel Rall himself was mortally wounded and died the next day. George Washington’s fight for freedom had won an early and decisive victory against the immoral oppressors!

    So, please join me in correctly remembering DECEMEMBER 25TH 1776 role in the founding of America!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River

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  3. Hi everyone
    Unfortunately I missed the exciting live “born again” debate, but fortunately I could play catch up on youtube and wish to contribute the following regarding 2 men, who shared the same name in the new testament.
    I was pondering the perceptions of “born again” at day 1, of each of their lives with Messiah and now with hindsight, how initial perceptions may be very far away from the truth.
    The first one was a half brother of Yeshua and according to:
    Joh 7:5 For even His brothers did not believe in Him.
    His belief in the Messiah was poor on day one, but when we read his testimony in the 25 verses preceding the book of Revelations, we know his most likely “born again” status.

    The second one who was one of the twelve must have said “Yes” on day one
    Act 1:17 because he was numbered with us and did receive his share in this service.” Also read Matt 10 v 1-4
    and must have been perceived as “born again”, up to the point where he chose to betray the Messiah.
    Thanks to everyone for helping me to break down christianese & churchianity doctrines and leading me to the Truth = Torah = Yeshua = The Word
    Shabbat Shalom
    Johan

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  4. Why have i not seen any where this truth: jerimiah 31:33-in those days i will put my law in there hearts. Ps,40:8 thy law is in my heart. Ps,119:142,the law is the truth! Heb,8:10, i will put my laws in their mind and write them in their hearts. Rom,3:31, not voiding the law,we establish the law. Born again is when we repent the law can manifest in our heart,but churchianity perverts this. Follow christ who kept the law. Christians follow jesus the law breaker. As a previous christian penticostal this floored me, Matt,7:22,23. Casted out demons,prophsey in his name, done mighty works , then told to depart because of (not iniquity) but hebrew is lawlessness. I became very upset and started the path which ended up torah. Ps119:142, the torah is truth

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  5. Our Father Elohim is spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and truth..
    To be born again, is Hebrew interpretation, we must be immersed in the living words of Yeshua Messiah. His words are His Father’s..The words of Elohim are spirit and to be made while by the spirit of immersion into the words of Yahovehs..in John 15:3-John 14:23-24..as in Ephesians 5:26..we are to become spirit and walk in the light as our deeds are brought to the light of Elohim to not bring our deeds is darkness, evil and is death . Greek katharos.. is purge or cleanse, the Hebrew word is for pure is barar,carries the same meaning, as used in Psalm 18:26 and it’s derivative,bar,used in Psalm 19:8 to declare Yahovehs instructions,His Words,to be pure..let us immersed in His words to be born again..hearing is obeying,obeying is hearing

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  6. To be born again in John 3:3-5 and 1 Peter 1:22-23..the single Greek word anagennao meaning “to have one’s mind changed so that he lives a new life comformed to the will of Yahovehs,” speaking of how to conduct ourselves after having our souls purified by becoming obedient to the the truth found in His life, so the scripture says our souls are purified.. Yeshua chastisement of a rabbi who should have known better. We must hear and obey,obey and hear. His words to be immersed in every droplet of the living words of Yeshua that he heard from His Father Elohim and obeyed..

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  7. P.S. wanted to add , Yeshua makes a distinction to enter the Kingdom is between the practices ( what is born or brought forth) out of flesh and the practices (what is born or brought forth”) out of spirit.Revelation22:14 who have washed their robes( do His words or commandments)as those who have right to the tree of Life, entering the gates of the city, His Kingdom ( Zechariah 3:3-5) In Galatians 5:19-21 Paul speaks plainly about what the works(practices,deeds) of the flesh are.whats intriguing about that passage is how remarkably close that listing comes to the ten words in Exodus 20:1-17.pauls says that the end of those practices is death but the end of the practices of spirit is eternal life, exactly what Yeshua said in Matthew 19:17-19

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